When comparing Tilda vs Yakuake, the Slant community recommends Yakuake for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux terminal emulators?”Yakuake is ranked 6th while Tilda is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Yakuake is:

Almost everything in Yakuake is customizable: from split view, fullscreen mode, configurable dimensions, to animation speed and keybindings.

Pros

Pro

Highly customizable

There are tons of customizations you can make: from adding colors to text, turning backgrounds transparent, setting the size to be "maximized", toggling scrollbar on and off, adjusting orientation/borders/animation, etc.

Pro

Few dependencies

Tilda is a very minimal and lean terminal emulator. It requires very few dependencies and the amount of resources needed is small.

Pro

Easily accessible drop-down

The drop-down function in Tilda does not get in the way and can be accessed at any time with a keyboard shortcut.

Pro

Supports transparency

You can monitor information displayed by applications under Tilda.

Pro

Tabs support

Tilda supports tabs. By default: to open a new tab press Ctrl + Shift + t. To move through them: Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn.

Pro

Very customizable

Almost everything in Yakuake is customizable: from split view, fullscreen mode, configurable dimensions, to animation speed and keybindings.

Pro

Drop-down terminal makes for ease of use

Yakuake is a drop-down terminal. This means that you can press, for example, F12, and it slides downward from the top edge of the screen. After you are done with it, you can then hit F12 again and it slides back on top.

Pro

Split layout

You can easily split any tab into different windows and run several commands at the same time then monitor and change them with ease. You won't find this feature in guake or tilda!

Pro

Tabs support

Yakuake supports tabs, while working with several tabs is very easy. By default: to open a new tab press Ctrl + Shift + t. To move through them: Shift + left/right arrow.

Pro

Monitor for activity/silence

When an activity is let working (e.g.: compiling some source or upgrading some system), and you forgot it, a nice popup and sound will alert you when the command prompt returned on that term.

Pro

Wayland Support

As the entire Plasma Desktop, yakuake already has full support for Wayland.

Pro

Save output as text

You can save the output of a terminal directly to a text file, to work properly with it later.

Pro

Lightweight

Opens at 40MB and stays below 100MB with some tabs splitted in four each. So if you need to have many terminals emulators opened in your desktop environment, is the a very light solution for all the features it includes.

Pro

Enhanced focused terminal

You can configure yakuake to show a visual altert when you change the terminal. So even if you have many splittings and you don't use the mouse to change between them, you can easily see where you are at any moment.

Pro

Quick move through splits and tabs

You can move through terminals with Ctrl+Shift+Cursors or tabs with Shift+Cursor keys, so no need to touch you mouse or pad, making working with terms even faster.

Pro

Unlimited scroll history

You can scroll, inside the same terminal session, infinitely, so no command should be lost, even it isn't stored yet on history.

Pro

Quick search support

Search directly in your favourite search engine just by selecting something and right clicking. It will open the browser result page.

Cons

Con

Contains some annoying bugs

Tilda can be buggy at times. For example, if you don't close it before shutdown, it may prompt you to reconfigure it all over again on the next boot.

Con

KDE Library dependencies

While not an issue if using KDE, when trying to use this terminal in other desktop environments or window managers, there will be a large amount of dependencies tied to the app. This makes for a large install size. For those trying to keep their desktop lean, this may be an issue.

Con

No sessions support

Con

Slow

Yakuake has started to get really slow with the latest updates: it takes up to 3 seconds to start up after you have clicked the assigned hotkey.

Con

No Windows Support

Con

Heavy

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